Recs if you like Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature...
Books about books (...call it book-ception 🤓)
Nonfiction about the history, development, and impact of books, literature, storytelling, knowledge, reading, archives, information, and related subjects. Always open to suggestions!
✨#1 Favorite Book✨ Submissions
Submissions submissively submitted by the Pagebound users forced to choose their ONE favorite book under manufactured duress.
Read Until You Understand
novels, poetry, literary criticism, and history books by Black authors referenced in Farah Jasmine Griffin’s Read Until You Understand; The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature — forming a type of Black literary canon
Mothers’ Gardens
personal, poetic, or literary Black Feminist/Womanist works. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!
the measure of our lives: black writers on reading
Books by Black writers about their lives as readers and their relationships with language. Title comes from the following Toni Morrison quote: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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